Businesses Resort to Manual, Low-Wage Labor to Build Niche Sales Contact Lists
A small business is hiring an entry-level worker at $3 to $5 an hour to manually search for school coaches' names and emails and fill them into a lead-generation spreadsheet, revealing a gap in affordable automated data enrichment for niche B2B outreach lists.
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